Hall of Fame
Colyer was one of the first great pitchers to matriculate through the Transylvania baseball program, playing for the Pioneers from 2007 through 2010. Colyer made his presence known on arrival, earning All-HCAC Honorable Mention honors in his freshman year of 2007, pitching 55 innings and furnishing a 7-1 win-loss record on the mound with a 3.76 earned-run-average. Colyer tallied 46 strikeouts in his 2007 debut season while surrendering only six walks.
Colyer earned All-HCAC honors in every season with Transylvania, adding a second Honorable Mention award to his mantle as a sophomore, and earning All-HCAC First Team selection in both his junior and senior seasons. Colyer was part of the first Transylvania baseball teams to win a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season championship and a conference tournament championship, and helped form the first team to qualify for an NCAA Tournament in 2008. In his senior season of 2010, Colyer pitched 86.1 innings with a 6-4 record, including four complete games and a total of 64 strikeouts.
A local product from Lexington Christian Academy, Colyer ranks first in the Transy record books for career wins (22), batters faced in a career (1,269), flyouts forced (265), groundouts forced (338), batters faced in a career (1,123), and batters faced in a season (351 – 2010). Colyer ranks second all-time in Transy baseball history in career strikeouts looking (64), and career innings pitched (277). Colyer’s 179 career strikeouts stand sixth-most in program history while his 64 strikeouts in 2010 stand seventh all time in Transy baseball history for strikeouts in a season.
